Word: flooringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Missouri's Symington, Harry Truman's onetime (1947-50) Air Force Secretary, who set up shop as chief critic of Administration defense policy, failed to score a direct hit in many bombing runs on and off the Senate floor. Feeling the balance-the-budget heat, he gradually backed down from his charge that the Defense Department was dangerously starved by the Budget Bureau, shifted toward a new line in favor of re jiggered priorities (more ICBMs) within present spending. Turning his attention to the farm program, he failed to score with cloudy hints of Commodity Credit scandals...
...city-owned red station wagon parked outside his home. A second blast, 33 minutes later and eight miles away, blew in the glass front of an office building housing Little Rock Mayor Werner C. Knoop's construction firm. Five minutes later dynamite thrown through a ground-floor window partially wrecked the Little Rock school district's administrative offices, blew out windows in a nearby Carmelite monastery where 14 nuns were asleep...
...last all danger was past, though the fire itself smoldered softly through the duff on the forest floor. Remarkably, nobody was killed (a few fire fighters were injured), and the only severe damage for Deadwood came with the destruction of the two lumber plants, a lot of dry lawns, a trailer park, a few houses on the town's edge, and Deadwood Dick's famous cabin in the woods. It was a nightmarish ordeal all around, but in the telling of tales that makes old Deadwood a paradise for tourists, it was bound to get much worse until...
...serenity and delight. Aluminum-clad columns lift it above a pond filled with water lilies. Employees will cross the pond on slender concrete ramps on their way to work; in moments of leisure they can sit or stroll beside it beneath the shadowed arcade provided by the overhanging second floor. A glass skylight lined with aluminum ribbing protrudes from the concrete roof, projects a variety of light patterns on the inner court below...
...Upstairs (English). A taut, offbeat thriller, crisply written and directed, about a psychotic scientist holed up on the top floor of a rooming house, and how his fellow lodgers coax him into coming down...